Power Management and Inhibition by Applications

[Elvis Angelaccio]

On 16/01/19 22:07, Matthieu Gallien wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to work on a feature request to add the ability to suppress laptop 
> sleep when playing music.
> 
> Currently, Juk is doing it via dbus calls to "org.kde.Solid.PowerManagement".
> 
> I also had a look to Solid frameworks and the power classes that add an 
> asynchronous way to do that.
> Currently, the Solid framework only conditionally provides those features and 
> it seems distributions (at least Debian) do not always build it.
> 
> I am also unsure about the current recommended solution that would work for 
> most desktop environments.
> 
> What would be the best way forward ?

Hi,
the "official" way to achieve that should be a dbus call to the
org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver interface (methods Inhibit and UnInhibit).

> 
> I can also see some other features that could make sense to provide in 
> libraries that music players could use (lyrics fetching, album art fetching, 
> ...). This could be in a dedicated framework to help build media players.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> --
> Matthieu Gallien
> 
> 

Cheers,
Elvis